St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-19
DULUTH MATTERS.
A Rise in Coal---The Printers En-
gagged in Regulating Affairs.

BY Cable to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi. Oct. 1S.-Stove coal
took sudden rise this morning and is
now $3.50 per ton.
AT a meeting of the Duluth Typo
graphical union this afternoon the use
of plate matter in all the offices in the
city was forbidden after Dec. l, and the
scale will be raised to 40 cents Nov. 1.
Capt. Quinn, tho United States engi-
neer, speaking of the ship canal ques-
ton now agitating Duluth people says
to-day as follows: 1T is simply this, if
the government cannot obtain title to
the old canal they cannot spend any
thing upon it and as national approach
to the most important harbor on the
lakes Is an imperative necessity, the
government will probably make a canal
OF their own If they cannot gain the title
to the present one. Anyway the pro-
posed improvements will take two or
three years to accomplish and the most
needfui thing to be done now is for the
city TO take Immediate steps to obtain
possession of the canal and hand it over
unreseryedly to the United States. Then
and not until then, can these improve
mentS be considered. Also bear in mind
that legislation must also be procured
by which the state of Minnesota will
cede all her rights
1t is stated Oh good authority that the
Chicago & Northwestern road intends
to do at once what all Chicago roads
have realized must be done and connect
its great system with the lakes at the
head of Lake Superior rather than Lake
Michigan. This road sees none too soon
that Duluth is 400 miles nearer the
Western graneries than Chicago, and
just as near the Atlantic coast by lake
as Chicago, and holds the keys to the
situation. 1t has decided, therefore, to
build from its present northern points
in Central Dakota at Redfield, Aber-
deem and Columbia to Duluth, making
it as nearly as possible an air line
and running through or just
north of Sisseton agency and south of
the Northern Pacific line, via Mile
Laos and Miles City. The line will give
and the lakes less than half as long as
the present circuitOuS route and less
than quarter as long as the present to
Chicago. Nor does it intend to stop at
Duluth. The movement lately recorded
OF several Detroit capitalists and rail-
road men interested in New York Cen
trail. among whom are Alger and Led
yard, to build road from Duluth to the
Straits of Mackinaw, was in further
ance of the scheme, and the intention is
to have a through trunk line from Cen
trail Dakota to New York.
MERELY MENTIONED.
A. E. Lehman. Philadelphia, chief en-
gineer of Brooklyn, Bath and West End rail
road. Gettysburg e. Harrisburg railroad and
also for Jay Cooke was in the city Yesterday
He comes here for the purpose of making a
practical personal survey of the dalles of
the st. Louis river and the water sites thereon
He will make a complete contour topo-
graphical and profile map of the river,
showing the amount of water obtainable at
each of the ten sites, upon which the st.
Louis Water Power company will erect ten
dams during the coming winter. The survey
will take three weeks. The total water
power will be far greater than that at St.
Anthony falls.
Iron Rangs Lodge No. 296, B. of L. F., was
organized here lately with the following
officers: Master, Thomas Kelly; vice master
+. Ferguson; secretary, William Bell; treas
urer. 2. Mcclure. The firemen in the new Or
ganlZatlon number about twenty five but this
list will be increased to at least fifty inside of
month.
A raft of logs containing $500, 900 feet of
lumber arrived at the mills yesterday after
noon. A few more RATS will be secured be-
fore the season closes.
John P Glow will meet Paddy Mcdonald
for four rounds on the same evening as the
Warren Siddons fight.
The grading contract on Tenth avenue east.
which mas occasiOned SO much talk, is about
completed.
Willlston, Lowe & Co. are loading 4Oo, 900
feet of lumber, selected grades, for Touan-
anda, n. I.
AS14000 cash transfer of East end prop
erty was recorded yesterday.
HARRIsoN's REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE
has over S150,O0O inside property in Supe-
rior. Can be bought at one-third of its real
value, as it must be sold. Hotel ST. Louis
building